The Octagon
THE OCTAGON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1171881
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Octagon
- Statutory Address:
- THE OCTAGON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1171881
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Octagon
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OCTAGON
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE OCTAGON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Old Hunstanton
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 69174 41631
Details
TF 6941 OLD HUNSTANTON HUNSTANTON PARK
7/70 The Octagon. 5/6/53 - II*
Garden building. c.1640 for Sir Hamon Le Strange (b.1583) 3rd Bt. possibly by William Edge, stonemason, then engaged by Sir Roger Townshend at Raynham Hall. Squared, coursed carstone with galletting, cut stone details moulded and rubble brick, C20 flat roof in temporary materials. Octagonal on plan, single storey with a classical frontispiece. Cut stone frontispiece entrance occupying a whole bay with stone plinth, smooth drafted rustication above. Central arched doorcase with simple architrave surround with central voussoir keystone, more fully moulded closed pediment above with modillion cornice and console brackets. C20 temporary boarded door. Rustication partly continued into adjoining bays, each with alternately blocked or open mullioned and transomed cross windows with pediments and rusticated surrounds either of cut stone or chamfered brick, originally stuccoed now partly exposed. Smooth rusticated quoins at angles. Battlemented parapet with stone string course and copings. Said to have been built to remove the noise of Sir Hamon's violin playing from Hunstanton Hall. "a notable reflection of the Court style of Inigo Jones in a remote country setting" : H.M. Colvin, Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600 -"1840, (1978), p.281.
Listing NGR: TF6917441631
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 221252
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 281
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 29 Norfolk,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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